Requires us to learn several new technologies…

https://www.makeuseof.com/web3-change-internet-privacy/

How Will Web 3.0 Change Internet Privacy?

… The main goal of Web 3.0 is to put power back into the hands of internet users. It will let users create and execute tools instead of giving large corporations their data to use online services. It uses technologies like blockchain to decentralize the web, removing its dependence on massive third parties.

Perspective. Someone said, generals prepare to fight the last war.

https://taskandpurpose.com/news/whats-next-in-war/

What’s Next In War

Autonomous drones, laser weapons, and goggles that can see through vehicles, oh my.

… If Pentagon preparations are any indication, the battlefield of the future will be littered with autonomous drones flying protection missions for infantry squads below that will walk alongside robots that carry their heavy weapons. Vehicle gunners will be learning how to maintain their laser weapons instead of a machine gun. And platoon leaders on austere islands in the Pacific will be able to receive orders from the brass through a network of 5G wireless and satellites.

At Task & Purpose this week, we’re exploring some of these technologies, gear, and weapons of tomorrow. On Tuesday, we’ll examine the Next Generation Squad Weapon program, which aims to replace the M249 Squad Automatic Weapon and M4 rifle, a staple of the U.S. military since the Vietnam War, with a more lethal weapon that has greater range and stopping power. Maneuver-Short Range Air Defense, which will apparently turn a Stryker combat vehicle into a helicopter and drone-killing device with a 50-kilowatt laser, is next on the agenda for Wednesday. On Thursday, we’ll talk about an Air Force program that’s hoping to create jet fuel out of thin air, which, if successful, would offer a disruptive capability in logistically-challenging Pacific environments. And finally, on Friday, we’ll take a look at the Army’s futuristic “mixed reality” goggles that will let soldiers see through their vehicles and spot threats in real-time.

Perspective.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/01/how-to-navigate-the-great-relearning-revolution/

Navigating ‘The Great Relearning’ revolution

A Gallup-Amazon study revealed that 48% of workers in the US are willing to switch jobs if offered skills training opportunities.

When COVID-19 forced the brakes on the global economy, millions of people decided to step off the treadmill to refuel their aspirations. As many as 40-75% of the workforce is reported to be considering quitting their current job. This movement has precipitated a talent crisis, fuelling debate on whether this is the Great Resignation or the Great Reshuffle. While each analysis is insightful, I believe we are looking at something completely different; we are at the tipping point of the Great Relearning Revolution.

Perspective. I find this interesting.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/01/21/media-journalism-future-527294

Is the Media Doomed?

From a Big Tech crackdown to the rebirth of local news, 16 future-minded thinkers predict where journalism will be in 15 years.

… The changes in the media industry make it nearly impossible to guess. When POLITICO was born 15 years ago, a digital-first politics site was considered downright disruptive in Washington, D.C. Today, that sounds almost quaint compared to what was on the way: Facebook was a baby, and Instagram was just a twinkle in a code developer’s eye. “Pandemic” meant the Spanish Flu of 1918 — and “Zoom” was a kids’ show from the ’70s. Information now flows in ways nobody was even considering in 2007, and over the next decade and a half, media is poised to change even more dramatically.

… When shunted through digital media, information behaves like water: It flows together, it melds and it finds its lowest common level. The trivial blurs with the profound, the false with the true. The news bulletin and the dance meme travel in the same stream, with the same weight. Content collapses.